Basic Music Theory, 4th Edition: How to Read, Write, and Understand Written Music

What do all those lines and squiggles and dots mean?
Basic Music Theory takes you through the sometimes confusing world of written music with a clear, concise style that is at times funny and always friendly. The book is written by an experienced music teacher using methods refined over more than 30 years in schools and in his private teaching studio. Lessons are fun, well-paced, and enjoyable.

The Practice of Practice: Get Better Faster

The focus of this book is music practice, but these techniques and mindsets can be applied to any skill you want to improve.
The Practice of Practice covers essential practice strategies and mindsets you won't find in any other book. You'll learn what research tells us about practice, but more importantly, you'll learn how great musicians in many genres of music think about practice, and you'll learn the strategies and techniques they use to improve.

Practice Like This!: 35 Effective Ways to Get Better Faster

If you're alive, you're trying to get better at something. It could be your golf swing or guitar, parenting or painting, gaming, cooking, or any other skill. The strategies in this book are top-shelf, pulled from neuroscience, research on excellence, and world-class masters in many fields, presented in an easy-to-understand style that is sometimes funny and always friendly. Hundreds of helpful images and graphics. Six sections, 42 hacks.

Essential Trumpet Lessons, Book One: Get Started: Tone, Breathing, Tongue Use and Other Skills to Get You Off to a Great Start

Essential lessons for comeback players, midlevel players, and all beginners. Covers tone production, breathing, tongue use, written music, how to practice, and more essentials to get you started right.